A Little Bit Of Everything

 This week was a little bit of everything.  We played, we went to meetings, taught, inspected apartments, met our newest senior missionary couple in the mission, did some service, attended a friend's funeral and visited with family and friends.  This week's highlights-

The weather has still been warm this week so we acted like it was still summer.  We took a P-day on Monday and went to SeaWorld in San Diego.  




We had our regular meetings and teaching appointments this week and we also inspected apartments.  Of course we can never go empty handed so I made some special Halloween cup of dirt treats. 


Sister Reece and Sister Johnson

Since we have a shiniest apartment contest going on this month, we have had some amazingly clean apartments.  The competition is fierce. 

We are still enjoying our days of pickleball. 

We did go up to Camarillo again to attend the funeral of our friend, Vince Hopkins.  It is always sad to lose yet another person that we love. While at the funeral we were able to visit with his son, Rudd, who is good friends with our son, Nathan.  Also Nathan's friends, Matt Bell and John Eric were there.  


Rudd Hopkins, Jon Eric Dewindt, Matt Bell and Elder Prater all wearing bowties in Vince Hopkins honor. 

While in Camarillo, we had the opportunity to visit our son and daughter and grandchildren, so it was a good trip. 


 
We definitely had a little bit of everything this week!


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